From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42B8E1382C5 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3462E0BAB; Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BD47E0BA0 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D7140676CE for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:24:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:24:14 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible? Message-ID: <20201225182414.72c6f0c0@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.8 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/cDs_IWHTna1lIdC.QVOPWYM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: f6778470-2c8c-4775-bab2-17eac2326737 X-Archives-Hash: 53c7b3a9e56fc9f114fc564f915d58c3 --Sig_/cDs_IWHTna1lIdC.QVOPWYM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot, > Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to > learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread > tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI > mode properly. UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant of fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you don't already know GRUB, I'd say start with something simpler. --=20 Neil Bothwick The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions. --Sig_/cDs_IWHTna1lIdC.QVOPWYM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAl/mLk4ACgkQ92eFu0QS MJgZAQ//ZwZO9gW4POjpoCJm6EptOFa9ioq3gwCh0pPazxY/YFApWc10JZPF/v56 v0W1EGt3q0qIDq0b71wkFvBXuSsl3L3AuTYBgjPrh4NdVn8w9UpG6VVawqcsbpla vdqtCtoTPWhR7rwxBWlKhK6z6QPwZsRn0ZCl/HYTt64Ywzh3HCwAwM+zgPvgT8jf 5c+HEonHoAB5wYcVrOpMeZQ6UTMINFg7nNfRw2S8vhU+poDqe6pEDqxE5BO8Y7Kk w5MVOO4FPV2SgErVk0DR7RnmLTXUFLli9FIthhsid1DrP8hKs03XgbtIEH9EiXfb Z7pFEETI9LttljIeTuQdt05+hJmbcyVT6OtbUNDe0sIaHZuUFJ+Lw/U/3sHB2Z7p G+cLPD3UNDHSJFaOkSmlw6ipPI4r1NbkhnrwC4H4rYg8r1ckOKMYc0K67oA9OP3y 6Pee6A0wGuqOL345b23unzYA/DQT4FfW73MFzAhLwz8k9PHfg7axUdQTl3v3BClo kIS8HXqwQPdedUGMXfeGmtbqjuMnNO1hdxTu0ghR7sdkXz7ctI/4tXx432EYneQw azCkq5aZRyNdYO0WnlZ6wvl6UDjxgwm/Cwo4yT5czwt3BvY7WAG5QBaoGkGeLcCd qGL44TZHTwV5hG/6Xk/+tz546+h0rtb8NbNbmipkN6OctWV52nQ= =VkyY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/cDs_IWHTna1lIdC.QVOPWYM--